IWTC Virginia Beach Connects Students with Information Warfare Community Detailers

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VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, UNITED STATES

12.13.2017

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Center for Information Warfare Training

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Information warfare (IW) community detailers spoke with students attending the Information Warfare Officer Intermediate Course (IWOIC) at Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach, Dec. 13.

Naval Personnel Command’s PERS-47 (Information Warfare) detailing team held a video teleconference with the IWOIC students. The team answered questions and provided guidance to the newest members selected for milestone and leadership billets in the IW community, allowing all designators represented in the IWOIC to ask questions and receive unfiltered answers.

The majority of officers in the IWOIC were recently screened for milestone and leadership assignments, driving questions as to how the assignment process works. Those who had already been selected for leadership assignments asked pointed questions relating to executive officer and detailer interaction, as well as mentoring junior officers.

Several students echoed that the exchange helped cage their expectations and manage their direction as they enter into new leadership roles. “The conversation detailing executive officer expectations with the detailer was very helpful as we go forward and take on new responsibilities,” said one student.

The detailers also took time to explain the dynamic milestone and leadership boards, and how each community works to fill those tours. They shared advice for everyone to review the language in the convening letter for the statuary board, and to understand the difference between best qualified and fully qualified. The detailing team highly encouraged the audience to take the opportunity to be a recorder for a board, as it will help make them better officers, and that they can then take the knowledge they gain and share it with their respective communities.

Understanding that the detailer is not a singular resource was an important note. Detailers advocate for their officers, but they are only one piece of managing the detailing process. Each community’s placement officer and community manager are also integral parts of the process. The placement officer is the command advocate and helps define the type of officer needed to fill a position. The community manager keeps the community healthy and controls the inventory of officers.

Cmdr. Andrew Boyden, IWTC Virginia Beach commanding officer, explained, “Allowing time in the schedule for these types of interactions guarantees that information warfare leaders will be armed with the right information as they shape the next generation of information warfare officers.”

IWOIC provides concepts, knowledge, and skills necessary for IW officers to succeed in O4 milestone tours. Training focuses on the integrated application of Information Warfare at the operational and tactical levels of war. Senior officers provide mentorship on leadership and ethics. Students are provided senior-level instruction of the IW strategy and way ahead followed by a detailed view of programmatics, state of threat, global force management, manpower and budget programs, video teleconferences with theater commands and numbered fleets, and in-depth exposure to priorities and challenges affecting each of the individual communities.

IWTC Virginia Beach, as part of the Center for Information Warfare Training, provides a continuum of training to Navy and joint service personnel, preparing them to conduct information warfare (IW) across the full spectrum of military operations.

IWTC Virginia Beach currently offers 69 courses of instruction in information technology, cryptology, and intelligence with an instructor and support staff of 290 military, civilian, and contract members who train over 6,000 students every year at five training sites in the Hampton Roads area. It also oversees four learning sites at Jacksonville and Mayport, Florida; Kings Bay, Georgia; and Groton, Connecticut.

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• Date Taken: 12.13.2017
• Date Posted: 12.16.2017 05:48
• Story ID: 259204
• Location: VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, US